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Bert Barten is a directing artist, who believes in the power of images and music. His performances touch the spectators in all their senses. Barten has been active in many art forms already.
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Since he likes to avoid the usual ways of theatre making, working in an unpredictable outside location is the ultimate challenge for Barten. Therefore, this is the area in which he and his staff have specialised themselves during the latest years. ‘The Storm’ of Shakespeare on the castle canals of ‘Loevestein’ and La Divina Commedia of Dante in the woods of ‘Landgoed de Kemphaan’ are the living proof of this.
With these performances, Bert Barten introduced a form of total theatre in which difficult texts and complex stories are made meaningful and accessible for a broad audience. Accessible also for him or her, who has never heard of Shakespeare or Dante. Meaningful also for whom has studied these master pieces all of his /her live. Faust of Goethe is a new challenge in a series.
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One of the most important reasons for Bert Barten to perform Faust, is because it’s content is a logical continuation of La Divina Commedia by Dante. Extensive comparative research of Dante and Faust has been published in the last decades. In the Anna Amalia library in Weimar, Barten even found a publication in which Dante, Faust and the Odyssey were compared to each other. He was amazed and surprised, since he had by then already decided to perform the Odyssey in 2003, also in Almere.
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Almost every form of theatre is used in Bartens interpretation of Faust. Arena theatre, simultaneous situations and many more can be seen in Faust. There will also be special attention for the ‘Austruckstanz’ from Germany in the 1920s-1930s. Next to a professional cast of actors, dancers, puppet players, mime players and motion specialists, there will be over a hundred volunteers in the play.
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Bert Barten and Karin Sligting established the Wonder Foundation in 2000. In short, The Wonder Foundation develops activities in the area of the arts and culture in general and location and object theatre in specific. The Wonder Foundation is connected to Ground Control, a dynamic en professional production company. Ground Control is specialised in theatre on location en multimedia presentations.
The theatre performances are based on literary masterpieces, like those from Shakespeare, Dante, Goethe and Homer. The universal themes of these texts have been a part of the enhancement of human philosophical thinking. In the year 2001, The Wonder Foundation created her first production, La Divina Commedia of Dante. In 2003, the Odyssey of Homer will be performed.
Bert Barten
After having been active for years in popular music, theatre and the audiovisual world, directing artist and multimedia specialist Bert Barten decided in 1990 to start his own production company: Ground Control, based in Amsterdam. This enabled him, besides taking on assignments, to execute his own artistical productions. Especially, after acquiring his own sound and video-editing studio.
In the first years of Ground Control, many small-scaled art productions have been realised with a relatively small team. As a result of the successful unique artistic formula, the name of Barten was established and an impressive network created. In the latest years, the focus has been on theatrical performances and large-scale location theatre. The present holding structure of the company guarantees a solid growth of the dynamic theatre production company.
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Karin Sligting
Karin Sligting has been co-working with Bert Barten for several years. In 1997, she was, as the director of ‘Slot Loevestein’, involved in the theatre show ‘The Storm’ of Shakespeare, directed by Bert Barten. As cultural innovator, she headed several dance and theatre productions. In 2000, she founded The Wonder Foundation, together with Bert Barten. Karin Sligting is director of The Wonder Foundation. Sligting has graduated in literature and business administration.
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